Tuesday is the first short story collection by acclaimed author Dane Swan. Moving through different perspectives, Tuesday is a collection of versions of similar events. The characters drive this story, which revolves around a secret abuse, a girl's night out, a bar named Sue, and layers of intertwining realities. Tuesday exposes how our stories connect, intertwine, and bind us together. Dane Swan is the author of 2 poetry collections, a short story collection and Tuesday (Grey Borders Books, 2018), his first novella. His second poetry collection, A Mingus Lullaby (Guernica Editions, 2016), was a finalist for the 2017 Trillium Book Prize for Poetry. Born in Bermuda, Dane currently resides in Toronto.
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Dane Swan was born and raised in Bermuda to a Bermudian father and Jamaican mother. Visiting family involved trips to small villages in Jamaica like Yallas and Land's End, or to New York communities like Crown Heights in Brooklyn. The great story-tellers he heard in these communities were his only literary professors. At seventeen, Dane moved to Canada with his brother to further their education.